Apartheid and Fragmented Protest in Contemporary Southern Africa

Life Goes On

Cuthbeth Tagwirei

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English

Routledge
26 September 2025

Regional studies; Communication studies; Media studies; Comparative politics; Political campaigning & advertising

Series: Routledge Contemporary Africa

Apartheid and Fragmented Protest in Contemporary Southern Africa examines protest movements through the lens of Apartheid Studies, the first general theory of apartheid which explores how oppression, harm, injustice, poverty, loss, and inequality persist.

The book argues that apartheid, which breaks the world of the oppressed into fragments, fomenting diverse experiences of oppression among its victims, frames the nature and course of protests by making them subject to its fragmentation. Protest is thus redefined as good neighbourly and demoted on account of its symbiotic relationship to apartheid. It is observed that the proliferation of protests does not preclude the persistence of apartheid. Rather, protest and apartheid are seen to be compatible. By examining protest hashtags on X from South Africa and Zimbabwe, the book explores and identifies the forms, relations, meanings, trajectories, and effects protests take, evoke, and embody as fragments subsisting in a fractured apartheid universe. It demonstrates how and why life goes on amidst protest, sheds light on the contradictions, paradoxes and complexities that characterise protest movements and invites conversations around protest as a paradigm in the context of apartheid.

The book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of social movements, protests, sociology, African Studies, and communication and media studies.

By: Cuthbeth Tagwirei
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9781041050070
ISBN 10: 1041050070
Series: Routledge Contemporary Africa
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 26 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cuthbeth Tagwirei is an Apartheid Studies scholar and former Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Creative Futures, Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He is currently a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State in South Africa.